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Volume 10 Chapter 4 Part 1

Chapter 49: Jobless

『Miria』
Current Levels & Equipment:
Assassin Lv.29

Equipment:
Estoc of Petrification
Iron Shield
Hardened Leather Helmet
Chainmail
Hardened Leather Gloves
Hardened Leather Boots
Sacrificial Misanga

「I finished the laundry, master.」

「Alright then, let’s go to the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth right away.」

「Okay.」

After we finished eating breakfast, I waited for the others to be done with the chores, and then we moved to the thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth. As we proceeded with the exploration, we happened upon a group of two Cape Carps and one Gummi Slime.

The thirty-third floor of Bode’s Labyrinth is the one that has many enemies who are weak against Fire Magic, so first off, I cast「Firestorm」towards them, followed immediately by another one.

Sparks fly about and engulf the monsters.

Oh, whoops! I have no way of knowing if the second one succeeded or not. Did the Spell succeeded twice, or did is succeeded only the first time and nothing at all happened the second time?

I don’t think that it managed to succeeded for a second time though, because if that was the case, then the amount of sparks in the air would have doubled.

After the flames from the Spell died out, I cast a third 「Firestorm」. If the last one didn’t succeed, this one would be second. The sparks flutter and engulf the monsters. When the amount of sparks began to fade, I cast fourth 「Firestorm」.

The sparks flare up and engulf the monsters again. This time, it’s definitely going to be a continuous 「Firestorm」for sure!

Success! I have succeeded in casting spells simultaneously!

It’s good to have succeeded and all, but this time, I don’t know when to cast the next Spell.

Before the flames of the fourth spell die out, the next spell in the third’s place should become available, but I don’t know what the exact timing for it should be.

Whatever, I’ll just keep on casting 「Firestorm」I guess. I have used that Spell a lot until now, so my body will know when the next Spell will be available for use.

I cast fifth 「Firestorm」properly. The sparks flare up again, indicating that it succeeded.

As for the sixth Spell, I can’t cast it simultaneously because I cannot guess the timing properly again

I’m just glad that the monsters didn’t move that much.

After a while, I cast 「Firestorm」again. The monsters attacked the vanguard while being set ablaze, but Roxanne is dodging their attacks admirably.

Because they’re ablaze, is that why their movement speed is relatively slower? And are they even moving slower in the first place? Because it honestly doesn’t seem like all that much to me.

Or maybe that’s the specification of monsters themselves? Is their fear of death really that thin?

As we continued fighting the monsters, I piled up one 「Firestorm」after another, until eventually all of the enemies crumbled away and disappeared.

I am happy to say that right until the very end, I managed to successfully pull of the continuous activation of my Spells.

When it was all over, Roxanne looked at me with a surprised expression. Well, the duration of the battle was cut down approximately in half, so I cannot say that I really blame her.

Since the time it takes to hit a monster doesn’t change, the amount of time it takes to confront a monster has been greatly reduced. On the flipside though, for the members of the vanguard, such reduction means less experience.

「Uhm… the sparks right now were flashier than before and flew without interruption. Did… did you change the way you use magic, master?」

Sherry shares her impression as the representative of the group.

Oh, that? Well, that’s it, more or less. As you would expect of her. Certainly, that was a battle in which the sparks were flying around without stopping.

「That was a sort of an experiment. Understand?」

「Yes, I understand.」

You say that you understand, but do you, really?

「It was a bit of a failure though.」

「A failure? How so?」

「Explaining it right now would be difficult to understand.」

「Haa…」
When you’re shooting the magic Spells continuously, it’s getting easier to measure the timing between the Spells properly.

Also, flashy combat is not always a good thing. Someone might see me using it in such a way, and hiding my usage of magic is already hard enough as it is. Sparks flying around all the time would just make it worse.

Not to mention that I’m doing all of that without chanting.

That was careless of me.

「The time of the battle just now was overwhelmingly shorter than usual.」

And now Roxanne noticed it as well? Then that was even more careless of me. Now that the timing of the battles has become so short, she might start insisting that we go hit the higher floors to get ourselves some proper challenge.

「Well, the experiment is still in the testing phase and needs more tweaking, but do keep in mind that the time of the battles won’t get any shorter than what it was right now. Actually, it might end up becoming slightly longer.」

「Amazing.」

「Is it now? Well, to put it simply, I can use multiple Fire Magic Spells simultaneously. I’m doing this experiment in relation to that. The test will continue on for a short while. From now, this will be my main style of fighting.」

「You can do even such a thing? As expected of Master.」

「But umm, such a thing is usually impossible, isn’t it?」

Sherry seems to be at a loss.

It’s usually impossible, huh? Well, it obviously is.

「Amazing, desu.」

「I think that it is amazing as well.」

Miria and Vesta are totally under the influence of Roxanne’s spell.

Normally, you can’t use two Mage Jobs at the same time.

Our worldly-wise man, Gozer, has a Grand Wizard Job, but even he can’t use both Mage and Grand Wizard at the same time.

My assumption is that Grand Wizard must be the apex of all the magic-using Jobs, so once I get my hands on it, I should be able to use Mage, Grand Wizard and Jobless triple Jobs combo.

Such three simultaneous magic attacks, I would call it Jet Stream Attack.

I look forward to the future.

「Since I don’t need an incantation, I might be able to use magic continuously.」

I told this to Roxanne and Sherry so they wouldn’t be confused. That being said, I don’t think that

「Chant Omission」has anything to do with it.

The most important part for being able to cast magic continuously is having multiple magic-related Jobs.

「Can you fire it as often as you like since you don’t have to use an incantation?」

「Well, I can’t do that much…」

Sherry exchanged a glance with Roxanne.

She seems to be thinking about something.

「Is something wrong?」

「Uhm… normally you should call out to each of the Party Members when you’re about to use Skills or Magic. That is how a Party works.」

「We don’t have a problem like that in our Party since only Master uses magic, but usually chants don’t work well when two or more people try to use them at the same time because of what they call a Chant Resonance.」

Sherry follows up Roxanne’s explanation.

So chants for Skills and Spells can’t overlap with each other? Then it would be difficult to shoot magic continuously. And judging from what Roxanne said, it seems to be something that everyone knows about.

It’s the first time I’m hearing about this though.

「Is that so? Does everyone know that?」
「I know it, desu.」

「I think I’ve also heard about it too.」

Miria sticks out her chest proudly when I ask her about it, and Vesta seems to already know as well.

「Because of the Chant Resonance, there are no times where two or more Parties will cooperate in exploring the Labyrinth. There aren’t many instances of multiple Mages in a party either, but when they are, they usually alternate between shooting magic.」

「I see. As expected of Sherry.」

I was thinking that three Mages in the rearguard would make a considerably strong Party, but I hadn’t seen one so far.

So there was another reason for it, aside from just the rarity of Mages in general?

Two or more people can’t chant an incantation at the same time because it won’t go well, and they might need to alternate between the Spell usage because of MP problems as well.